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america built its wealth entirely through the crime of slavery. and i take his life in every pot them one by one and the book facilitated a great deal of discussion and conversation and was 12 weeks on "the new york times" bestsellers list. and i was very struck however that one of the ten big lies that was most controversial of all was the big lie that the that the growth of corporations as harm to the american experience and damaged the american people. i mean, it clearly hasn't. it should be fairly obvious to everyone that it doesn't. those of you who came here on some means other than walking benefited from some corporation that created the bus or the car and a motorscooter or whatever it is you came here with. and those of you who walk also benefited from shoes that were made somewhere. i mean, the involvement of business in our lives, every aspect of our lives in benefiting us is so obvious and so ubiquitous and so omnipresent that it seems utterly bizarre that anyone could design this. but i became very involved in promoting my previous boo
america built its wealth entirely through the crime of slavery. and i take his life in every pot them one by one and the book facilitated a great deal of discussion and conversation and was 12 weeks on "the new york times" bestsellers list. and i was very struck however that one of the ten big lies that was most controversial of all was the big lie that the that the growth of corporations as harm to the american experience and damaged the american people. i mean, it clearly hasn't. it...
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if you look on the left that is the new world, south america and with north america about eight. this is the first map to show north and south america unambiguously surrounded by water. not as some undefined part of asia or some undefined place that really isn't identified at all. because it shows more than south america surrounded by water it's the first map to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of mystery because europeans are not supposed to have known about the pacific ocean until 1513 when balto was caught sight of it from the mountaintop. so, that is something that brings a lot of people back to that and something peter has written about extensively. it's not something i dwell on a lot in the book because i felt the mystery is almost more fun to leave as a mystery than to try to resolve but it's a great part of the story. it's not the only part of the story though. there's more that is very significant about the map. if you look at africa for its simple this is one of the first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa and, exc
if you look on the left that is the new world, south america and with north america about eight. this is the first map to show north and south america unambiguously surrounded by water. not as some undefined part of asia or some undefined place that really isn't identified at all. because it shows more than south america surrounded by water it's the first map to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of mystery because europeans are not supposed to have known about the...
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but look, that's america. the truth is more is available to more people than ever before and anyone who doesn't see that added opportunities, comforts, life expectancy, educational opportunities that we have that would have been undreamed of for our parents and grandparents. anyone who doesn't see that is deliberately blind and deaf and limited and embittered. my grandfather was a barrel maker, came from ukraine in 1910. he never stayed in a hotel in his life. why would he? that would be rare for americans. one mother figure i have in my book, people are not going to believe it but it's an offical labor department figure and you know they wouldn't like. labor department in the united states, a typical american family today spends more eating out and dinners, fast-food restaurants or luxurious restaurants, different kind of restaurants than the family spends on health care. and we spent too much on health care. all right. the idea that capitalism is dead and agree to the reasons why capitalism is not dead and i
but look, that's america. the truth is more is available to more people than ever before and anyone who doesn't see that added opportunities, comforts, life expectancy, educational opportunities that we have that would have been undreamed of for our parents and grandparents. anyone who doesn't see that is deliberately blind and deaf and limited and embittered. my grandfather was a barrel maker, came from ukraine in 1910. he never stayed in a hotel in his life. why would he? that would be rare...
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you can have working-class in america can wear blue jeans. . . when i wanted to show that everything sort of loosened up, but some countries don't like that anymo idea of 1968 but ther is much more vivid. it is a stirring picture of 1968 and and and sort of lord of all -- were a little. again in high school the tension with the beach boys are. so i was like traveling with the beach boys from -- i was traveling around the czech republic with the beach boys and tt didn' consequence. there was some other contract people would beat up people but i needed that sort of catharsis in the story and this is the most telling place in prague and in the book because this shows how silly the whole system became because when john lennon was shot in 1980 young people painted the walls which is in the beautiful part of prague and then somehow the government decided this is out of control the people cannot just paid whatever they want and this was artistic. it wasn't like i would say graffiti or it was somehow bad days and the police troops and painted the whole t
you can have working-class in america can wear blue jeans. . . when i wanted to show that everything sort of loosened up, but some countries don't like that anymo idea of 1968 but ther is much more vivid. it is a stirring picture of 1968 and and and sort of lord of all -- were a little. again in high school the tension with the beach boys are. so i was like traveling with the beach boys from -- i was traveling around the czech republic with the beach boys and tt didn' consequence. there was...
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this is my friends book in america nobody liked my idea. they said they were too far out but i started to the street for other people with those little dots then i was lucky because the second or third book nablus remembering this and through that two butthroh school site ao suspected at that time and i admit done in a cover of the book the moon or son to surround that looks like a metal, and i have been talking about it too much. people know it now. and is say no. [laughter] finally i could do my own book going back to rich in the new country i was sitting in this studio talking about myself with this loan the creature living in a strange country looking for a spiritual friend this is the observation and finally i see this beautiful woman waving at me and finally somebody i know. it was somebody trying to stop a taxi. [laughter] it is about people different people waving and all the elevators because where i grew up there were not many elevators at all. dedicated to my sister because she will not be able to travel again but just before 198
this is my friends book in america nobody liked my idea. they said they were too far out but i started to the street for other people with those little dots then i was lucky because the second or third book nablus remembering this and through that two butthroh school site ao suspected at that time and i admit done in a cover of the book the moon or son to surround that looks like a metal, and i have been talking about it too much. people know it now. and is say no. [laughter] finally i could do...
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over, he changed america vastly for the better. giving people ordinary people, the ability to buy a car a lot of people to go on vacation, and a lot of people take weekends off. i mean, it's incalculable, the gift that was provided there. and virtually every gift that has allowed the middle-class lifestyle, for better and worse, to emerge with the limbless choices that middle-class people have for this country today has come because of the creative ability of businesses. there is no lesson of any kind of that nature. and i write in the book about, you can go through the typical classes that people have, or even the holidays that they celebrate, we celebrate holidays, little kids learn about holidays. they never learned the pilgrims were part of a corporation. they had invested that they were here to make a profit or so were the people of jamestown. do we have -- and we have time for a few more questions? yes, the lady here. >> my name is emily. i am from england. i would just like to say i think you're a very charming man, but i'm
over, he changed america vastly for the better. giving people ordinary people, the ability to buy a car a lot of people to go on vacation, and a lot of people take weekends off. i mean, it's incalculable, the gift that was provided there. and virtually every gift that has allowed the middle-class lifestyle, for better and worse, to emerge with the limbless choices that middle-class people have for this country today has come because of the creative ability of businesses. there is no lesson of...
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he did this as a candidate and say on one hand yes, america has a history of history and it segregation about on the other he was a prime example of the progress made. another great example is a three times dimensions race during the inaugural race. you talks about those of us who felt the lash of the web that was a reference to slavery. he talked about segregation at one point and finally he talked about his father. he might not have been able to sit at a restaurant in washington d.c. decades ago because of his race. he was right about that. on certain level sometimes he plays history professor and chief nine just commander in chief and imparts a real lesson but for the most part he has tried to stay away from racial matters which is very impact on the african-american community especially in terms of public policy. >> there was a recent flap disclosed in a new book by two journalists called game change, the book which revealed a private conversation and harry reid had, the senate democratic leader. especially back gain obama, as saying this was a match your view calling him the fact h
he did this as a candidate and say on one hand yes, america has a history of history and it segregation about on the other he was a prime example of the progress made. another great example is a three times dimensions race during the inaugural race. you talks about those of us who felt the lash of the web that was a reference to slavery. he talked about segregation at one point and finally he talked about his father. he might not have been able to sit at a restaurant in washington d.c. decades...
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he describes america as the biggest purveyor of violence in the world by 1967. and we have to take note that his riverside speech, april 4th 1967 when he first comes out against the vietnam war mike in a very robust public way is given one year to date before he is assassinated in memphis. when we think about king between 1965 to 60 even two years before river site by the time king is going to chicago and he's in chicago to try to transform the slums he talks about islam clarence campaign and desegregate housing in chicago. he's talking about poverty. he's talking about economic marginalization of poor people, laborers. king makes a very famous speech where he talks about labour has dignity which is one of his last speech in 1968. king's poor people campaign is something that we shunt aside as well. we really keep dr. king frozen on august 28th 1963 with the i have a dream speech in his washington, d.c. and we don't think about the king who was much more combative even though he was non-violent because he believed he could use of violence as a moral and politica
he describes america as the biggest purveyor of violence in the world by 1967. and we have to take note that his riverside speech, april 4th 1967 when he first comes out against the vietnam war mike in a very robust public way is given one year to date before he is assassinated in memphis. when we think about king between 1965 to 60 even two years before river site by the time king is going to chicago and he's in chicago to try to transform the slums he talks about islam clarence campaign and...